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PodcastsPodcatcher is a free plugin developed by Michael Pyle, which works with Beyond TV to enable you to watch video podcasts on your Home Theater PC.

Using Podcatcher, you can set the program to download video podcasts automatically, integrating the podcast title and information straight in to the Beyond TV folders with ease.

Limitations:

  • Must Own Beyond TV4 or higher
  • Will only Allow playback of BeyondTV supported files such as:

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Posted in: News, Video Editing & Production and Web TV Tips by Alx Klive on June 29, 2007

Video EditorsIn the past year a number of online video editing websites have popped up promising to offer a quick, fun and easy way to edit your video online. Today I’ll ask the question whether Online Video Editing is any good of whether you should stick to desktop based editing.

For the more technically inclined, online video editing seems at first like a bad idea. Editing video is one of the most processor intensive applications you can do on a computer, and trying to replicate that experience through a web browser seems like it would be an exercise in futility.

Nonetheless, several online video editor websites already exist, with recent additions coming from the latest video sharing site MySpaceTV, and the video sharing giant YouTube with the YouTube remixer.

This article takes a closer look at what’s out there in this space, and whether you should give these online video editor sites a closer look.

First however some cold hard facts about video editing in general…

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newsroom_logo.jpgMichael Pick recently wrote an in-depth review of The News Room concentrating on how you can use its news video feeds to make money on your website. Taking a closer look I found a few faults with The News Room’s payment structure.

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  1. As you can see in the picture above it says that you can earn $4 CPM rate for video feeds. CPM basically means “cost per 1000 impressions”. But does it mean that 1000 impressions of the video feed box (shown below) will earn you $4 or every 1000 views of an actual video, i.e users have to play a video for it to count towards the 1000 impressions.
  2. The News Room does not allow you to track your earnings. So at no point can you actually see how much you have earned. This is very frustrating for anyone expecting to earn money from The News Room.

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Posted in: News, Video Editing & Production, Web TV Tips and Web Video Technology by Chris Tew on May 28, 2007

FilmingThe first stage of the broadband video revolution was driven by user uploaded content mainly consisting of short clips. Now people are able to take things further by actually being able to produce their own online TV destination by creating live channels and scheduled programming through a variety of online tools .

Create Your Own Web TV Station - Mini Guide

This mini-guide compares the currently available tools and services according to whether they incorporate the following features:

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Posted in: News, TV Gadgets & Equipment, Internet HDTV and Web TV Tips by Chris Tew on May 17, 2007

HDMI CableIn the past year or so, computer graphic cards have begun to sprout HMDI ports allowing you to connect your PC to a High Definition (HD) TV via HDMI cables.

I think it was the Sapphire Radeon X1600 Pro that was announced in March 2006 that was the first HDMI graphics card on the market.

While this probably does not mean much to anyone now as there is a lack of HD content available on the internet, we are slowly seeing this begin to change with more internet TV episodes beginning to stream in HD.

TVTonic, for example, has a library of vodcasts that can be watched on a media center PC, with many of them being available in HD and perfect for watching on a plasma television.

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Posted in: News, Video on Demand, Advertising, Video Distribution, Web TV Tips and Webmasters of Video by Chris Tew on May 17, 2007

Lots of MoneyHere is a new unique monetization model for your website which results in a win-win situation. It involves syndicating the latest news to your website in the form of video and other media and getting paid for it!

You are able to select news feeds from certain relevant categories and have these video news releases synidicated to your site and get paid for showing them on a CPM basis!

This is a great form of advertising that can really add value to your visitors.

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Posted in: News, Video Sharing & Video Clips, YouTube, Internet TV Software & Tools and Web TV Tips by Chris Tew on May 16, 2007
  • Do you have a site where users are demanding video sharing functionality?
  • Do you have an idea for a new type of YouTube clone that will make you money?
  • Do you know of a particular niche/subject that there is a strong demand for a niche video sharing site?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions then you are probably looking to find a way to develop your own video sharing site. There are two ways that you can go about building your own YouTube site:

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